“I do believe this is going to have to be litigated. The Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is going down a political path of weaponizing the tax code for political purposes,” he said in an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.”

GOP @RepTomReed says he believes the release of President Trump's tax returns "is going to have to be litigated."

Democrats have clamored for Trump’s tax returns since he declined to release them during the 2016 campaign under the premise that they were being audited.

“The IRS has a policy of auditing the tax returns of all sitting presidents and vice-presidents, yet little is known about the effectiveness of this program,” Neal said in a statement. “On behalf of the American people, the Ways and Means Committee must determine if that policy is being followed, and, if so, whether these audits are conducted fully and appropriately.”

However, Republicans have slammed the Democratic efforts as an attempt to bog down the White House with a litany of investigations to try to trip up its legislative agenda and hurt the president.

“Obviously you’ve watched the last 2 1/2 years of the Democratic Party once this election occurred and it was occurring was going after the president, going after the president to remove him from office, to impeach him, and this is just another step in that,” Reed said. “This is not about tax administration, this is about political and weaponizing the tax code for political purposes, and Americans should be concerned about this.”